Observation of optical feedback dynamics in single-mode terahertz quantum cascade lasers: Transient instabilities

X Qi, K Bertling, T Taimre, G Agnew, YL Lim, T Gillespie… - Physical Review A, 2021 - APS
We provide an experimental evidence of transient instabilities (TIs) in a terahertz (THz)
quantum cascade laser (QCL) under optical feedback, in contrast to the widely accepted …

Harmonic generation in biased semiconductor superlattices

MF Pereira - Nanomaterials, 2022 - mdpi.com
Semiconductor superlattices are proven nanomaterials for THz nonlinear optics by means of
high order harmonic generation. Seminal approaches leading to a perfectly antisymmetric …

Calculation of intersubband absorption in ZnO/ZnMgO asymmetric double quantum wells

A Atić, N Vuković, J Radovanović - Optical and Quantum Electronics, 2022 - Springer
ZnO based heterostructures have recently received increased research attention, related to
the development of room temperature THz/MiR semiconductor devices. The potential for …

Competition between Entrainment Phenomenon and Chaos in a Quantum-Cascade Laser under Strong Optical Reinjection

O Spitz, L Durupt, F Grillot - Photonics, 2022 - mdpi.com
The topic of external optical feedback in quantum-cascade lasers is relevant for stability and
beam-properties considerations. Albeit less sensitive to external optical feedback than other …

Combined structural and voltage control of giant nonlinearities in semiconductor superlattices

MF Pereira, A Apostolakis - Nanomaterials, 2021 - mdpi.com
Recent studies have predicted a strong increase in high harmonic emission in unbiased
semiconductor superlattices due to asymmetric current flow. In parallel, an external static …

Resonant Tunnelling and Intersubband Optical Properties of ZnO/ZnMgO Semiconductor Heterostructures: Impact of Doping and Layer Structure Variation

A Atić, X Wang, N Vuković, N Stanojević, A Demić… - Materials, 2024 - mdpi.com
ZnO-based heterostructures are up-and-coming candidates for terahertz (THz)
optoelectronic devices, largely owing to their innate material attributes. The significant ZnO …

Optical instabilities in Fabry-Perot resonators

A Bassi, F Prati, LA Lugiato - Physical Review A, 2021 - APS
We start from the Maxwell-Bloch equations that govern the dynamics of Fabry-Perot lasers
and, considering a doubled cavity, generalize our traveling wave formalism to the case in …

Efficient computation of coherent multimode instabilities in lasers using a spectral approach

S Kacmoli, SA Khan, CF Gmachl… - New Journal of …, 2023 - iopscience.iop.org
Coherent multimode instabilities are responsible for several phenomena of recent interest in
semiconductor lasers, such as the generation of frequency combs and ultrashort pulses …

Graphene saturable absorber mirror for passive mode-locking of mid-infrared QCLs

A Outafat, S Faci, E Richalot, S Protat… - Optical and Quantum …, 2022 - Springer
Passive mode-locking in quantum cascade lasers (QCLs) remains one of the huge
challenges because of the fast relaxation time of the excited carriers which is typically in the …

[PDF][PDF] 量子级联激光器非线性动态特性研究进展

冯伟, 毛雨, 孟悦, 任天亮, 王长, 曹俊诚 - 红外与毫米波学报, 2023 - researching.cn
量子级联激光器(Quantum Cascade Laser, QCL) 是依赖电子在量子阱子带间跃迁辐射出光子
而发生激射的单极型半导体激光器. 大量的理论与实验研究已经证明轻微的外部扰动(如光反馈 …